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Hey! Old news is better than no news. FUNimation's licensing of the entire Mai-Series announced at Otakon 2013:

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Funimation Adds Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, More!

North
American anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced at its
panel at Otakon on Saturday that it will release Shinichiro Watanabe and
Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop television anime series digitally and on Blu-ray
Disc for the first time in North America. Funimation plans to release
the series in 2014. Additionally, the company announced that it has
licensed the following titles that Bandai Entertainment had previously
licensed:

Outlaw Star

Escaflowne: The Movie

The Vision of Escaflowne

My-HiME

My-Otome

My-Otome 0~S.ifr~

My-Otome Zwei

Sunrise
producer Masayuki Ozaki had revealed in May that the company was in
talks with Sentai Filmworks and Funimation to distribute former Bandai
Entertainment titles.

Sunrise had announced earlier in the day that
Funimation has also licensed the following titles that Bandai
Entertainment had previously released in North America: Tales of the
Abyss, Witch Hunter Robin, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Code
Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, Angel Links, Crest of the Stars,
Banner of the Stars, Banner of the Stars II, and Passage of the Stars -
Birth. Sunrise also announced that Funimation has the Code Geass: Akito
the Exiled video anime series.

Funimation also announced that it has
licensed the rest of the Fairy Tail television anime that is currently
in existence (up to episode 175), and revealed that Wolf Children will
ship on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on November 12.